akuma587 on 03 January 2009
Bursche said: Saw Doubt and Burn After Reading.
Doubt was just a performance piece. Great acting but was dull for the kind of movie I wanted/expected. Burn After Reading was great the 2nd time I watched it. I caught everything I missed the 1st time. The scriptwriters of that movie are the same from the LadyKillers and Oh Brother Where Art Thou. All great, strange movies.
I want to see the Curious Case of Benjamin Button though. |
I pretty much agree, though I still enjoyed it. Its a lot like a play (not surprisingly, it was adapted from a play). You have relatively long scenes that are long on dialog and lower in terms of action.
It does hold your interest though, and I think the movie is definitely a healthy 7 or an 8 out of 10. Closer to 8 for me since the performances were great and I loved all the specific actors.
One of the nicest things about this year's movies is that they are all really different from each other. I mean even between Frost/Nixon, Benjamin Button, Doubt, The Wrestler, and Milk you have a lot of variety. Milk and Frost/Nixon are probably the most similar since they are both pretty political and are pseudo-documentaries, but even still they are very different films.
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